Schima superba prophouse-summer-2027 so the whole shrub reads

so the whole shrub reads as a soft fountain of gold and green

a glossy broadleaf evergreen that thrives in the dry

The Japanese name says it well: sasaba means bamboo leaf

and wood finishes

Schima superba prophouse-summer-2027 so the whole shrub readsSchima superba is a beautiful evergreen Asian tree with no English common name. It is in the Tea family so related to Camellia, Gordonia, Stewartia, etc. It has lanceolate leaves 5 6 inches long. The new growth is red bronze. Flowers are white and several inches in diameter. Our trees were grown from seed collected in Taiwan by our freind Mark Krautmann of Heritage Seedlings. We have seen several thriving specimens of this tree in the southeastern U.